The 2017 Desert T20 Challenge was an international

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(T20I)

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tournament that was held in

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and

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from 14 to 20 January 2017. The eight

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that have T20I status were scheduled to take part, although

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declined to participate and were replaced by

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(who did not have T20I status at the time). Therefore, matches with Namibia were played as

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matches. The fixtures for the tournament were confirmed by the

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(ECB) in December 2016. The eight teams were split into two groups of four teams, with Afghanistan, Ireland, Namibia and the United Arab Emirates in Group A and Netherlands, Scotland, Oman and Hong Kong in Group B. The semi-finals and final of the tournament took place at the

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on 20 January. Afghanistan and Ireland qualified from Group A and Scotland and Oman qualified from Group B for the finals stage of the tournament. Afghanistan beat Ireland by 10 wickets in the final match to win the tournament.

Teams

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Squads

Before the tournament started, both

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and

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were ruled out of Ireland's squad due to injury. They were replaced by Stuart Poynter and

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respectively.

Fixtures

Group A

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Group B

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Finals

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Statistics

Most runs

Most wickets

References

External links

Series home at ESPN Cricinfo
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